Ma'am, she only wants to be promoted

Chapter 171 Zheng Jieyu's Attack
Concubine Jing looked away from the bronze mirror, and sighed, "It's true that beauty fades before it grows old."

Now that the new batch of palace servants have not yet entered the palace, the emperor is already like this. When the newcomers enter the palace, the emperor may not even bother to look at her.

The maid behind Concubine Jing heard the words and comforted her: "Your Majesty, don't think about it too much. Now that you have a family to rely on, and the eldest princess is by your side, the Emperor will not ignore you no matter what."

Concubine Jing smiled and thought: Yes, since grace is unreliable, it's better to hold the power tightly in your own hands.

But the imperial power that she thought would definitely fall into her hands, the emperor had no intention of handing it over to her.

Now this palace power has actually been squeezed back into the hands of the empress dowager.

It would be extremely difficult for her to seize the palace power from the empress dowager, but she would not give up if she was asked to give up.

It would be great if the eldest princess was a prince, then she still has something to look forward to, but it's a pity that the eldest princess is a girl.

Maybe... She should have a prince by her side.

She doesn't count on the third prince raised by Concubine Ming's side, but isn't there a newcomer entering the palace soon?Maybe some of those newcomers were smart.

Concubine Jing was thinking about it when a little palace maid came in to report: "Your Majesty, Zheng Jieyu is here to greet you."

"Let her wait outside first."

"Yes, ma'am."

Afterwards, Concubine Jing took a long time to choose the jewelry, and finally chose a set of hairpin and ring jewelry that she was satisfied with, and went to the hall outside to receive guests without rushing.

As soon as she saw Zheng Jieyu, Concubine Jing smiled and said: "It's a bit late today, Zheng Jieyu has been waiting for a long time."

Zheng Jieyu shook her head with a smile, "The concubine is too ignorant, forgot that the emperor stayed with the empress yesterday, and came a bit early."

When Concubine Jing heard this, the smile on her face froze for a moment, before Zheng Jieyu noticed, she changed the subject with a smile and said naturally, "What do you want to see me today?"

Zheng Jieyu smiled and said: "Look at what your mother said, can't this concubine come to greet you if she is fine? Today this concubine is simply here to greet you, empress."

"The empress is gone. The empress dowager likes to be clean, and she doesn't let the concubines wait to pay her respects when she has nothing to do. In this way, the concubines and other sisters will have fewer opportunities to get together and talk."

Speaking of which, Zheng Jieyu glanced at Concubine Jing, and received the decree: "I want my concubine to tell you, now you have the highest status in the harem, concubine and others, it's time to come every day to say hello to your concubine. It’s good to use the precious land of the empress to talk every day.”

Concubine Jing shook her head with a faint smile, "What is Zheng Jieyu talking about, I am just a concubine, you come to greet me, it is because we have a good relationship as sisters, we like to talk together, but let the other sisters come and greet me I beg you to pass."

Zheng Jieyu heard the words, thought about it, sighed a long time, and said: "Your Majesty said the same thing, although the concubine only wants to talk to her sisters every day, but after all, there are some names that are not right. if……"

When Zheng Jieyu said this, she seemed to realize that she had said something she shouldn't have said, so she quickly stopped the conversation, and changed the subject: "The peony Diancuibu shake that the empress is wearing today is really beautiful."

Concubine Jing smiled, and said: "Zheng Jieyu's dress today is also very simple and elegant, it suits you very well."

"Your Majesty, do you think it's okay?" Zheng Jieyu said with a smile: "The concubine was afraid that this attire would be too plain."

Zheng Jieyu then dressed up and chatted with Concubine Jing for a while, as if she came to Qingren Palace today to pay her respects to Concubine Jing, and what she said before was just a matter of rushing to the point, so she slipped her tongue for a while Same.

The emperor went to Qingren Palace on the first night, Concubine Xi thought that the emperor would come to her palace on the second night, so she asked the palace people to get ready early.

But when she was waiting happily for the emperor to come, she received the news that the emperor had gone to Linglong Pavilion.

Xi Consort angrily overturned the food on the table.

In Zheng Jieyu's palace, after Zheng Jieyu heard that the emperor had gone to Lu Wanning's place, she sat quietly for a while without saying anything, and only asked her personal maid to remove her carefully painted makeup, and then lay back I fell asleep on the bed.

Next, for more than two months, the emperor would go to Linglong Pavilion most of the time, and occasionally to other palaces, but he never went to Zheng Jieyu's place.

This was the first time since Zheng Jieyu entered the palace.

This made everyone in the palace speculate whether Zheng Jieyu had really fallen out of favor?
In a blink of an eye, it was the beginning of April, and a new batch of beautiful women was about to enter the palace.

Maybe Zheng Jieyu was in a hurry. Today, after finding out that the emperor and Lu Wanning were admiring flowers in the imperial garden, she dressed up carefully and went to the imperial garden holding her pipa.

After admiring the flowers, Lu Wanning and Luo Chengjing were taking a walk in the imperial garden when they heard the faint sound of a pipa.

Lu Wanning paused, and looked at Luo Chengjing beside him.

Luo Chengjing didn't seem to hear anything, and asked Lu Wanning with a smile: "Why is my concubine looking at me like this?"

Luo Chengjing smelled like this on his mouth, but he held Lu Wanning in his hand and walked straight towards the direction of the sound of the pipa.

Lu Wanning shook her head, snorted lightly, and said, "Didn't the emperor hear that?"

Hearing this, Luo Chengjing looked down at Lu Wanning, and said with a smile on the corner of his mouth, "Is my concubine jealous?"

Before Lu Wanning could speak, Luo Chengjing continued: "My concubine doesn't need to be jealous, I still prefer to listen to my concubine playing the piano compared to the pipa."

Lu Wanning blushed and denied it when she heard the words: "The concubine is not jealous."

While talking, the two had already walked outside the pavilion where Zheng Jieyu played the pipa.

Zheng Jieyu was wearing a plain dress, her hair was tied loosely with a jade hairpin, her temples were scattered, and she concentrated on playing the pipa in her hand, as if she didn't notice the arrival of Luo Chengjing and Lu Wanning.

Luo Chengjing didn't make a sound, so Lu Wanning quietly accompanied Luo Chengjing to finish listening to a piece of pipa music.

At the end of the song, Luo Chengjing clapped his hands lightly, Zheng Jieyu seemed to have just noticed Luo Chengjing and Lu Wanning, and rushed over to salute with his pipa in his arms.

"The concubine has seen the emperor and the concubine Zhuang."

Zheng Jieyu already looked very weak, and with her deliberate attire today, she looked even weaker, which could easily arouse pity from others.

Lu Wanning stood aside with a smile, waiting for Luo Chengjing's reaction.

Luo Chengjing did not go to help Zheng Jieyu as Lu Wanning thought, but smiled and shouted: "Excuse me."

Before Zheng Jieyu got up, Luo Chengjing said again: "Zheng Jieyu will continue to play her pipa, I and Concubine Zhuang will go back first."

After finishing speaking, Luo Chengjing turned around and left without any nostalgia, as if all the favors he had for Zheng Jieyu before had never existed.

Lu Wanning looked at Zheng Jieyu, and saw that she was staring at Luo Chengjing's back, her eyes seemed to be shining with water.

(End of this chapter)